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oapen-20.500.12657-302532021-11-15T08:21:55Z Cooking Data Biruk, Crystal Anthropology Data collection Demography Electroconvulsive therapy European Credit Transfer and Accumulation System Field research Malawi COOKING DATA is an ethnographic study of how demographic data is collected, handled, processed, and manipulated by fieldworkers, researchers, policymakers, and NGOs in Malawi and internationally. Crystal Biruk’s fieldwork with people at all levels of major survey projects explores how survey-based research projects call truths about the populations they work with into being, transforming data from answers to survey questions into statistics that appear self-evidently true. Beginning with the assumption that clean data is a myth, Biruk uncovers the hidden relationships between the knowledge work that produces data and its value to various audiences. Specifically, her work considers how health-related data have become financially valuable both to NGOs and to the young Malawians who work as data collectors and, later, supervisors--and how the commodification of health information intersects with local social worlds. 2018-03-01 23:55:55 2020-03-10 03:00:33 2020-04-01T12:49:41Z 2020-04-01T12:49:41Z 2018-03-30 book 648164 OCN: 1015246329 9780822371823 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/30253 eng application/pdf n/a 648164.pdf Duke University Press 101006 f0d6aaef-4159-4e01-b1ea-a7145b2ab14b b818ba9d-2dd9-4fd7-a364-7f305aef7ee9 9780822371823 Knowledge Unlatched (KU) Durham, NC 101006 KU Select 2017: Front list Collection Knowledge Unlatched open access
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COOKING DATA is an ethnographic study of how demographic data is collected, handled, processed, and manipulated by fieldworkers, researchers, policymakers, and NGOs in Malawi and internationally. Crystal Biruk’s fieldwork with people at all levels of major survey projects explores how survey-based research projects call truths about the populations they work with into being, transforming data from answers to survey questions into statistics that appear self-evidently true. Beginning with the assumption that clean data is a myth, Biruk uncovers the hidden relationships between the knowledge work that produces data and its value to various audiences. Specifically, her work considers how health-related data have become financially valuable both to NGOs and to the young Malawians who work as data collectors and, later, supervisors--and how the commodification of health information intersects with local social worlds.
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